Cleaner

Clad head to toe in protective gear, doctors and nurses cluster around the patient, fighting to keep the coronavirus-stricken man alive. Just behind them, unnoticed and unheard, a worker in the same protective gear goes about an entirely different task: disinfecting surfaces, collecting waste in biohazard bags, unobtrusively inching past beds and life-support machinery to mop the floor.

Romania's Black Sea resorts are set to start their 2018 tourist season this weekend, with over 40,000 visitors expected to head to the seaside for the traditional May 1 break.

But local entrepreneurs say they may have a hard time coping with the influx because of the unprecedented shortage of staff.

Sanctions will be given to the company, which cleans the snow from the biggest residential complex - Lyulin. This was announced by the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova, quoted by bTV. The reason is a poorly done job during the extremely difficult day for the drivers yesterday.

Cleaning staff at Greek schools held a 24-hour-strike on Friday and demonstrated outside Parliament to protest against low wages.

According to the Federation of Private Employees of Greece (OIYE), cleaners work at schools on a contract basis and receive wages that do not correspond to the service provided.

Cleaners employed by Athens bus and trolley bus operator OSY were prevented by police from approaching Maximos Mansion, the office of the prime minister, on Thursday.

The cleaning staff held a demonstration in central Athens to protest six months of unpaid wages. 

A committee will be set up to assess the cost of cleaning public buildings with the aim of hiring permanent staff to undertake the task from next year rather than using private contractors, sources have told Kathimerini.

The Finance Ministry cleaners, who have been engaged in a months-long legal battle to win their jobs back, intervened on Wednesday in a row between New Democracy and SYRIZA over Attica Governor Rena Dourou’s decision not to offer them jobs at the regional authority.

Laid-off cleaning staff from Greece's Finance Ministry will on Tuesday stage a protest outside the Police headquarters in Athens in solidarity with three of their colleagues testifying on charges of disturbing the peace and of assault causing bodily harm during clashes with police officers on July 10.

One police officer was suspended on Friday for punching a sacked Finance Ministry cleaner on the head and another was being investigated for wearing non-issue toughened gloves normally worn by motorcycle riders.